Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh stated on Friday that his government will provide for its people following an intensified crackdown on the smuggling tunnels by Egyptian security forces.

Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood protesters formed human chains on Sunday on the outskirts of the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, denouncing the violent dispersal of two major Islamist camps a month ago.

Former Shura Council and Muslim Brotherhood member Sobhi Saleh was detained for 15 more days with charges of inciting violence and killings in the Sidi Gaber area in Alexandria on 6 June 2013, Sidi Gaber court decided on Sunday, according to state-owned Al-Ahram.

Egypt's Prosecutor-General Hisham Barakat referred 62 people, supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, to the Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday on charges of vandalism and committing acts of violence during protests in Ramses Square in mid-July.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has called for further civil disobedience after a similar announced two weeks ago largely failed when political groups and civilians did not respond.

Mohamed Hassan, media advisor for the Jamaa Islamiya, has denounced operations targeting the army and state institutions. “Violence that leads to murder and bloodshed is totally unacceptable,” he said.

As Egypt marks a new Coptic year, Pope Tawadros II says he believes the country will quickly recover from strife.

A spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in Ismailiya has been arrested, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reports.

Al-Wahi Al-Ameriki: Qasat Al-Irtabat Al-Banna'a Bein Amerika Wa Al-Ikhwan ('The American Divine Revelation: The Story of the Structural Connection between America and the Muslim Brotherhood') by Abd-Al-Azim Hammad, Dar Al-Mahroussa Publishing, Cairo, 2013. pp.266

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has called for further civil disobedience after a similar announced two weeks ago largely failed when political groups and civilians did not respond.

The Hamas Islamist group ruling Gaza sought to ease tensions with Cairo on Wednesday by ordering Muslim preachers to mute their criticism of the Egyptian government over what some of the clerics have called its war on Islam.

A Cairo prosecutor ordered on Wednesday that Mohamed Saad al-Katatni, head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, his deputy Essam al-Erian and senior member Mohamed al-Beltagy be referred to criminal court on charges of inciting the killing of protesters by the group’s Cairo headquarters in July.

Egyptian state prosecutors on Wednesday referred 12 leading Muslim Brotherhood members to criminal court on charges of "inciting violence and murder" in connection with June 30 clashes outside the group's Cairo headquarters in which ten people were killed.

A spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in Ismailiya has been arrested, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reports.

Egyptian authorities will bar 55,000 unlicensed clerics from preaching in mosques in the latest move against sympathisers of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, the minister of religious endowments said on Tuesday.

The Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters have began forcing the roughly 15,000 Christian Copts of Dalga village in Egypt to pay a jizya tax as indicated in Koran 9:29, author and translator Raymond Ibrahim reported on Sunday.

Nine militias were killed and 10 were arrested in confrontations with security forces in North Sinai late on Monday, a security source told Aswat Masriya.

Beni Suef prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention of 10 Muslim Brotherhood members and 44 other defendants for 15 days pending investigations over charges of buring police stations in Beni Suef and the town of Semesta as well as attempting to storm a police station in Ihnasia, another neaby town.

The Salafi Nour Party on Tuesday said the 2012 Constitution should be reinstated if the Committee of 50's Constitution receives less votes than last year’s constitutional referendum.

The Muslim Brotherhood strongly rejected the initiative that was proposed by Hamza Zawba, spokesperson for the group’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), in which the group was to accept the road map and admit misruling the country under deposed President Mohamed Morsy.

The Ansar Beit al-Maqdes jihadist group has claimed responsibility for the attempted assassination of Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim last Thursday. The group published pictures of the bomb exploding and promised to publish a video of the operation.